alt Hacker NewsIt seems China is repeating similar mistakes the western world did in the 20th century (e.g. psychosurgery, very weak regulations). It's like watching a car seconds before crash and you can't do anything to stop it.
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idiotsecant • yesterday at 5:48 PM
There is probably also some benefit to being willing to let some harm come to patients in order to quickly determine if treatments are viable or not. Western medicine puts a premium on human life but development of treatments is certainly slowed by that ethos .
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FooBarWidget • yesterday at 5:54 PM
> very weak regulations
Seems you missed out on 10-15 years of development. Regulation strictness these days rival western.
u8080 • yesterday at 5:57 PM
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The article explicitly states:
> The rapid adoption, in the absence of hard evidence, prompted Chinese regulators to intervene. Last year, they restricted the procedure to more-formalized clinical research settings, rather than the ad hoc use that had proliferated previously. And Xie, the pioneer of the technique, has been in detention since September for undisclosed reasons.